A proud Mimicry release, we were graced for one album cycle and are
very happy to have helped steady the ladder for this great band (who
have now appropriately moved on to The End Records).

Something of a post-modern apocalyptic cult, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
delight in setting folksy allegorical tales of auto-genocide and the
species-wide doom we all face to breathtakingly strange and compelling
music. With this release, their musical method blossomed and delivered
a devastating musical experience. With their dense, multi-harmonic
compositions and jagged, intricate rhythms (by far the best in the
business on both counts) servicing the artistic equivalent of a
Unabomber tract set to music, the music collected in Of Natural
History sets a serious high water mark for future generations to look
back on in awe-- (assuming future generations are given the chance to
exist).

SGM's impressive instrumental array includes many homemade devices
suggestive of the avant-garde. But SGM have little in common with
those who have marred that field with mere arty obscurantism,
jock-like musical gymnasts, and high-brow snootism that doesn't
deliver, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum are self-confessed as thoroughgoing
populists, warmly regarding their varied audience, and skillfully
embracing their role as entertainers. Even though the band boasts
heavy-hitters like Carla Kihlstedt (Tin Hat Trio, Carla Bozulich) and
Nils Frykdahl of Faun Fables, this is a band that survives and thrives
supremely through heavy touring, and in the process has amassed a
devoted following. For a band that owes as much to Meshuggah as they
do to the Art Bears, Messiaen, and Einstürzende Neubauten, their
skewed exhumation of Futurism in reverse strikes a broad nerve and
fills a big void. This release captured the band at a point of
breakthrough and exaltation. It's loved by thousands!